President’s Perspective: Beauty
FR. DAVE PIVONKA, TOR I still look out my office window. It’s beautiful, but it’s just so … so wrong, weird, different, not sure the right word. The trees are all budding, the ends of each of the branches are deep red, and every day more of the trees come alive. The yellow daffodils are popping out all around campus. And there are those little […]
It’s Lent
FR. DAVE PIVONKA Last week, at the end of a long day, I was checking into a hotel that offers cookies to all their guests. I thanked the lady at the reception desk but declined her offer. The gentleman next to me stated, “Really, why wouldn’t you want cookies?” I stated that it was Friday, and […]
President’s Perspective: Gift of repentance?
FR. DAVE PIVONKA, TOR “Repent!” In the gospel of Mark, this is the first thing Jesus says, so we should probably pay attention (Mark 1:15). And then when Jesus sends out the disciples for the first time, he tells them to preach repentance. Think about that for a minute. The first message that Jesus wants to communicate and the first things his disciples communicate is the invitation to […]
President’s Perspective: Newness, names and no place like home
FR. DAVE PIVONKA, T.O.R. PRESIDENT’S PERSPECTIVE COLUMNIST It looks like I am going to be writing a little column for the Troubadour each week. My thought is that it would give me another place to meet you and share some of my reflections. Sometimes it may be serious while other times maybe not. It won’t be long, and hopefully it will be worth your time. It will be […]